A brief history of crashes
Black-swan events are sudden, awful, unpredictable and extremely rare; market crashes definitely qualify.
Why are crashes inevitable?
Xavier Gabaix, a finance professor at Harvard University and the study’s lead author, said in an interview it’s because large institutional investors on occasion want collectively to get out of equities in a big hurry — and regulators are powerless to stop them when they do.
These investors have many alternative ways of reducing their equity exposure, from derivatives to markets outside the U.S.
Trading halts will therefore be largely ineffective.
Mark Hulbert MarketWatch 7 October 2024
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